- You decorate your Christmas tree with plugs [no hooks!]
- You named your dog “keepah” and your cat “schoolie”
- You drink sea water and spit salt
- You think ideal fishing weather is a N’easter
- You get caught looking at Plug porn on the internet.
- You only care about using wood you can cast.
- You think nothing feels better after a long winter than the spring run.
- You get caught fondling your new Van Staal.
- You think happiness is a sleepless night on a cold rock, unhooking big bass, that you never tell anyone about.
- You bitch about $4.00 a gallon gas but don’t flinch at $500.00 in new plugs.
- You climb into your own bed in the middle of the night and your girlfriend says “who is that.”
- You rather come to S-B.com instead of watching the local news.
- You think it is better to Hab than to Gibb…
- Your only criteria when buying a new vehicle is how to carry your rods.
- Your job is second on the priority list to fishing.
- Your idea of a good nights rest is a power nap for 30 mins before the alarm goes off.
- Your idea of drinking and driving is a Dunkin Donuts coffee to keep you awake on the drive home.
- You have a real good set of excuses lined up on why your car stinks.
- You wonder how you will resolve work and fishing.
- Your wife has a pained expression now when you mention spring is near.
- You promise your wife you will do spring yard work in spring and not try to hide it in July.
- You won’t do certain things because of your serious back pain, arthritic knees, and cranky joints but you will go walk all over Cuttyhunk climbing on rocks to fish.
- You are actually thinking of using a condom for a non sexual purpose (eel skin).
- Every pair of pliers you own are made of stainless steel.
- You snow blow your driveway in your waders.
- The only reason you workout at the gym is to prepare for tossing 5oz jigs at the canal and the death march out to squibby.
- You think you are cool when riding a girls bike.
- You know in February what time sunrise is and the exact date of the full and new moons for May, June, September and October….also scheduled the time off from work for these days.
- You are always watching the fish in your fish tank before during and after a major storm and taking notes.
- You use your lunch time at work to catch up on sleep and to prepare for the upcoming night of fishing.
- You wish someone bottled eel smell and sold it as perfume.
- You are going to send your kid to Mass Maritime so he can provide up to the second fishing reports of the Canal during the fall run.
- You know what Plug in What Color and what size to use on which rod with a certain reel and and what pound test Braid or Mono to use with the Current Tide, Wind Direction, Wind Speed, Air Temp, and Moon Phase……But you can’t find clean socks if they aren’t in the draw you expect them to be in.
- You’re taking a romantic walk on the beach with your SO [significant other] in some tropical paradise, and the only thing on your mind is “man, that is some pissah structure out there”
- Your getting married in a park overlooking the ocean in September and as you are exchanging vows you see birds going nuts and get distracted for a few seconds and have no idea what the pastor is saying.
- You only wash your hooded sweatshirt when actual fish guts get on the front. Slime and snots are ignored all season.
- You have used your purse as an auxillary tackle box.
- You never, ever go to the beach without a rod. Because you’ve already learned this lesson the hard way….
- You have completely educated your immediate family about the significance of New moons and bargained for yer disappearances from major familial functions during them.
- You know every “public facility” (porta johns, too) from CT to ME and its availability in the wee hours of the morning.
- The last five books you’ve read’s titles prominently feature the root words “stripe”, “surf”, “water”, and “bait/lure”.
- You begin sleep deprivation training in FEB, so that, by June~~October it’s not a problem to function for three days on 6 hours of sleep.
- You wake your wife up setting a hook in your dreams.
- You can’t see out any window in your house because of all the plugs hanging on the curtins.
- Your wife is afraid to open soup pots in your fridge because they’re likely to contain live eels.
